Jan 23, 2024
The twins were freezing their asses off in Myrtle Beach. That's not right. They return with a trip down the usual rabbit holes - their lives at the Magic Hotel (now Magic Castle Hotel) in Hollywood, shady characters, tweakers, rockers and celebrities and much more - including books, Myrtle Beach, music and a musical gem from the archive.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - "Only a Fool" By Chris Yale / Performed by Rogue Alley
4:25 - Greetings / Roger's missing gig bag / About the song / KISS
6:43 - Freezing in "Sunny" Myrtle Beach / Roger's "Don't Be a Dick" hat / Step away from the acid flashbacks / Around the world and back into your head / Seeing sounds
9:17 - Tom Arnold on Episode 83 / HGTC Addiction and Recovery Lecture Series / Planet Hollywood Myrtle Beach / Hollywood Wax Museum / Madame Tussaud / Madame Blavatsky / Theosophy / Joe Maher
12:32 - Exteriors of Hollywood / The memory versus the place / "Cosmic AI"
14:02 - Golden Harmony Singers / LACC / Wes Abbott / Chris' cinema classes / Dr. Richards / Dr. Tom Stempel / Frau Dr. Ulrich / Chris' documentary / Luis Buñuel (not Jacques)
16:03 - Magic Hotel (now Magic Castle Hotel) / Dad's hotel management style / Reservation nightmares / Working while 'shrooming
18:41 - Tweakers at the Magic Hotel / Shady characters / "Dusty Williams" / Hank Williams Jr. / Les McKeown / Old pillhead couple / More tweakers / Black Randy and the Metrosquad
21:29 - Rapid-fire name-dropping - like Speed Dating / Richard Herd / Stuart Damon / Ann B. Davis / Robert Morse / Daniel Stern / "Breaking Away" / Drunk Rock Hudson / "On the 20th Century" / Yul Brynner / Joe Maher / Chevy Chase / Kim Stanley / "The Right Stuff" / Noel Coward's "Red Peppers" / Tom Behringer / Frank Infante / Deborah Harry / Blondie / Peter Gallagher / "The Idolmaker" / Les McKeown / Bay City Rollers / Quentin Crisp / "The Naked Civil Servant" / John Hurt / Westwood Playhouse / Jeff Daniels
29:10 - The need for exercise / Cleanse / "Colon Blow" SNL / "Bootie bump" / Straight Edge
31:32 - Chris' belly dancer crush
33:21 - Slow time in Myrtle Beach / Bernie Taupin book, "Scattershot" / Bruce Springsteen autobiography, "Born to Run" / R.C. Sproul, "The Holiness of God" / George Martin biography, "Sound Pictures" / Bag of books / "Green Lights" by Matthew McConaughey / Ed Mylett / Rainn Wilson, "Soul Boom" / Baha'i / I be high / "Baha'isexual"
36:11 - Upcoming gig at Lulu's North Myrtle Beach / Chris' new hard-sided gig case
36:52 - Help our friend Adam Holt if you can. His GoFudMe campaign is HERE.
38:36 - Parting shots